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PROCTOR | November 2015
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Delaney & Delaney
reaches its first century
Delaney & Delaney hosted a
100-year celebration on the rooftop
at Brisbane’s Northpoint building on
26 September, presenting guests with
a spectacular view at that evening’s
Riverfire event.
More than 200 guests included Chief Justice
Catherine Holmes, Justice Mullins of the
Supreme Court, Deputy Chief Magistrate
O’Shea, Commissioner Swan of the
Queensland Industrial Relations Commission
and QLS president Michael Fitzgerald.
Also attending were Maureen Edmonson,
a daughter of firm founder William George
Delaney, and his grandson, Bill Delaney.
Mrs Edmonson was an articled clerk at the
firm in the 1940s, while Bill Delaney is a
consultant solicitor at Delaney & Delaney.
His daughter, Anna, is a solicitor and another
daughter, Bridget, is a paralegal.
Principal solicitor Fiona Kennedy told the
gathering that the firm remained focused on
people and their rights.
“The legal system in our country relies upon
legal firms taking that duty seriously,” she said.
“That has not changed and will not change.
“I think we hear in Bill’s voice his father’s
voice and his grandfather’s voice, and they
require of us respect for the law and people.
That is why we have reached a hundred and
why we will endure.”
1. Peter Gilroy, Michael Fitzgerald and
Deputy Chief Magistrate O’Shea
2. Fiona Kennedy and Jan Sharples.
3. Bill Delaney and Maureen Edmonson.
Courts complex celebrates 40 years
Townsville’s Edmund Sheppard Courts
of Law celebrated its 40th anniversary
last month, with an on-site ‘meet
and greet’ on 2 October and a formal
dinner the following evening.
The building, in Walker Street, houses the
Magistrates Court, District Court and Supreme
Court, and was opened by then Premier Joh
Bjelke-Petersen in October 1975.
Many former staff attended the reunion,
including Mareeba Magistrate Thomas Braes,
who was a clerk in the Magistrates Court when
courthouse staff moved into the new building.
He presented Townsville Magistrate
Courts principal registrar Susie Warrington
with a photo taken at that time, while retired
magistrate Gordon Dean presented the
Northern Judge, Justice North, with a photo
taken in 1953 outside the old Townsville
Supreme Court on the occasion of
the retirement of Northern Judge Justice
Douglas (left).
QLS Council member Ken Taylor, who
spoke on behalf of the QLS Council at the
meet and greet, noted that the Council had
met in Townsville at the time of the opening.
Image courtesy of the Supreme Court Library Queensland
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